Krillion Recorded answers
19,412 recorded answers
How to approach it
The safest route is to ignore the animals that first spring to mind and work down the taxonomic tree instead. Pick a class, then a family within it, then a genus, and only then commit to a species; that descent carries you past the handful of famous creatures everyone shares and into the long tail where the record is thickest. Habitat works as a second filter, since the continent's forests, rivers, highlands, coasts and offshore depths each hold lineages that rarely surface in general nature writing. Precision matters as well: a proper binomial or a settled common name reads as a real identification, whereas a loose group label is likely to be judged too vague. When two candidates feel equally strong, take the one you have never met in a quiz before.
Get a hint
Begin with the sheer breadth of the continent's fauna: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, freshwater and marine fish, insects, arachnids, molluscs, crustaceans and worms all supply valid ground here.
A little more
Then narrow by lineage rather than by fame, favouring groups that diversified in place across the continent's forests, grasslands, highlands, rivers, coasts and surrounding seas.
One step further
Finish by choosing one exact, precisely named species or clearly recognised form rather than a family or a general type, and lean toward creatures with small ranges and thin literature.
Reveal answers 19,412
- Gray-hooded sierra finchDeep Cut85points
- Gray-legged Night MonkeyDeep Cut85points
- Gray-legged TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Gray-lined HawkDeep Cut85points
- Gray-mantled wrenDeep Cut85points
- Gray-naped AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Gray-rumped SwiftDeep Cut85points
- Gray-spotted Scrub-HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Gray-streaked Armyworm MothDeep Cut85points
- Gray-tailed PihaDeep Cut85points
- Gray-throated LeaftosserDeep Cut85points
- Gray-throated warblerDeep Cut85points
- Gray-throated warbling finchDeep Cut85points
- Gray-throated white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Gray-waisted SkimmerDeep Cut85points
- Gray-winged CotingaDeep Cut85points
- Gray-winged inca-finchDeep Cut85points
- Gray-winged TrumpeterDeep Cut85points
- Gray's Bald-faced SakiDeep Cut85points
- Gray's Beaked WhaleDeep Cut85points
- Gray's Little VenusDeep Cut85points
- Grayish baywingDeep Cut85points
- Grayish CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Grayish MinerDeep Cut85points
- Grayish MournerDeep Cut85points
- Grayish PiculetDeep Cut85points
- Grayish Pygmy Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- GraysbyDeep Cut85points
- GraytailDeep Cut85points
- Graytail skateDeep Cut85points
- Great AgriasDeep Cut85points
- Great AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Great AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Great ArkDeep Cut85points
- Great barracudaDeep Cut85points
- Great Black HawkDeep Cut85points
- Great Blue HeronDeep Cut85points
- Great Blue HookwingDeep Cut85points
- Great Crested FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Great CurassowDeep Cut85points
- Great Dusky SwiftDeep Cut85points
- Great EgretDeep Cut85points
- Great ElaeniaDeep Cut85points
- Great EmesisDeep Cut85points
- Great Eurybia ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- Great EuselasiaDeep Cut85points
- Great FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Great freshwater stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Great FrigatebirdDeep Cut85points
- Great fruit-eating batDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring here is almost flat: of 19,397 accepted entries, 19,072 sit at 85 points, so the grade reflects how rare a guess is far more than the merits of the animal itself. A single entry reached 100, which is what happens when almost nobody else names that species; the 280 entries at 60 are the ones a large share of players converge on, so familiarity costs points. Species-level names dominate the 85 band — the sample runs from Olinguito (100) through 88 butterfly (85), Abakapa rain frog (85) and Abyssal assfish (85) to Acorn Woodpecker (85) and Acouchi (85). That band mixes insects, frogs, deep-sea fish, birds and mammals without hierarchy, which shows the reference list is taxonomic rather than popularity-based. Betting on a narrowly endemic, recently described or hard-to-spell form is the dependable way to hold 85; reaching 100 takes something almost no other player will propose.